Many people say that you can fail 70% of the time in baseball and be successful. The thinking behind that statement is that 3 hits in 10 ten at-bats makes you a .300 hitter. That problem is that it only counts getting a base hit as being successful.
Let’s say you are up to bat with one out and a runner on third base. You ground out to the second baseman and the run scores. As a coach, I definitely consider that a quality at-bat and successful trip to the plate.
I set a team goal of 14 quality at-bats per six inning game. What are some ways to achieve a quality at-bat?
- base hit
- hit by pitch
- base on balls
- sacrifice bunt
- sacrifice fly
- suicide squeeze bunt
- reach base on an error
- move a runner to 3rd base with less than 2 outs
- score a runner from 3rd base
- 6 pitch (or more) at-bat
